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Stanford Graduate Institute Workshop
The d.school Experience: Adventures in Design Thinking

Handouts

Project Briefs

Design Processes

Need finding

Needfinding slides (Michael)

Needfinding slides (Nicole)

Observing

Interviewing

Synthesis

Drawing (Michael)

Brainstorming

Point of View

Prototyping

Teamwork

Additional Resources

Stanford Technology Ventures Program: http://stvp.stanford.edu
STVP is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering, dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on technology-based firms. We have about 25 courses for undergrad and grad students.

Entrepreneurial Thought Leader (ETL) http://etl.stanford.edu
A weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from business, finance, technology, education, and philanthropy, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world. You can take this for credit or just show up... Wednesdays 4:30 - 5:30 PM

Entrepreneurship Corner web site: http://ecorner.stanford.edu
Website with thousands of video clips and podcasts from the ETL lecture series.

Creativity and Innovation: http://creativity.stanford.edu
Tina's Spring quarter course on creativity and innovation in individuals, teams, and organizations.

Global Innovation Tournament: http://www.unleashingideas.org/tournament?_c=1
A fast-paced competition challenges student teams to solve big problem in just eight days. Teams show their results in a 3 minute video. The mystery problem will be revealed during the launch event at Memorial Auditorium on November 4 - during ETL-  and submissions will be due Nov 13. Perhaps you can form some Summer College teams. :)